Q9550 New Cooler

blinghound

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Hey there,

Ive had An arctic Freezer 7 Pro (1st revision) for some time now, and with my Q9550 at 4ghz, its getting quite hot at full load (under prime ~75 on hottest core)

I was looking at the Corsair H50-1, but according to forums/reviews, the Noctua NH-U12P and Tuniq Contact Freezer cool the cpu to lower temperatures.

What would you recommend? and what would the temperature difference be compared to the freezer 7 pro?

Cheers everyone
 
Can't speak for the two you chose, but moving from freezer pro to Tuniq tower was about 15-20 degrees difference.

Essentially the freezer pro isn't all that good if you want to run high clocks.
 
thoughts ... its big, and almost needs bracing! good cooler from what ive read when looking for a cooler, but havent quite managed to get round to buying my q6600 yet, but when i do my pref is the Tuniq tower, or the h50 if i can find a good review and temp chart on the psu above
 
Slightly better I think if you mount it with your own paste and not the corsair way bung the backplate in place and secure it with tape and then lower the cpu block and screw it in each screw evenly.

I have a tuniq tower 120 the original and am looking to get rid of it for my q6600 I think from what I have read that the h50 can out perform it when running with high voltages like 1.45volts +.

Been looking at the H50 a lot lately but I am still not convinced I need to see more reliable results of temperatures under high voltage conditions.
I am waiting for review of several new coolers that have come out like the corsair A70 air cooler.
 
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The coolermaster V8 with fan mod provides as good cooling if not better than the V10 with a less bulky heatsink. I'm using one on my Q9550 with good results. (Tho I found I had to use the bolts rather than the backplate as the backplate seems to short out some of the SMDs on most boards).
 
on talk of the h50, the CoolIT Systems ECO 240 was ment to out perform the h50 by 5-10 more not sure will have to find it
 
Rroff said:
The coolermaster V8 with fan mod provides as good cooling if not better than the V10 with a less bulky heatsink. I'm using one on my Q9550 with good results. (Tho I found I had to use the bolts rather than the backplate as the backplate seems to short out some of the SMDs on most boards).
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Just need to add something between the backplate and board to stop that small padding

All I would be looking at is the best performers at high voltage on well overclocked cpu's nice to be able to run a chip to a max overclock and have liveable temps even in summer.
So far it would seem that massive noctua and TRUE are still the best but you made need to lap them.
 
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I have also been looking into this and the CPU liquid coolers, such as the Corsair H50 and Coolit ECO ALC seem to give good cooling. From what stats I have seen they are better than traditional air cooling.

I have recently purchased the Coolit ECO ALC although Corsairs H50 seems to cool around 3-5 degrees more, especially when you put two fans on the radiator. I myself am not only putting two fans on, I will replace the stock fan with Scythe Gentle Typhoons 120mm. As they produce good static pressure, good CFM and little noise, they will also be put through a fan controller. After that I will use IC Diamond 7 thermal paste, said to improve cooling a few degrees over traditional silver pastes, as well.

I would have preferred if they built a 2x or 3x radiator such as on their GPU coolers. Both the ECO ALC and H50 compete on the same par if not better than a lot of heat sinks.

The massive advantage of the CPU coolers is also their size and noise level. You can aquire much better cooling with less noise. They even compete with some water cooled setups: Though a properly designed an built WC machine will cool much more efficiently.

These might help you out:

Corsair H50:
http://blog.corsair.com/?p=987

Coolit ECO ALC:
http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/coolit_eco/4.htm

Though there are lots of reviews out there, I do not know the comparisons against things such as the V8 or V10. I will deffinetly look.

EDIT: Perhaps I should have looked here first?

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The H50 is better than the V8. Review here.

However, I believe the megahalems is just as good with some decent fans attached.
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http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=15175264
 
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I think if you want to bang a pc together as a quick build or havent the bucks and maybe even proper knowlage of buying the right blocks, pumps, res and rad. But want to cut your teeth on w/c like me as theres as many diffrent pumps and rads and blocks as there are air coolers. But having said that the h50 for example gives you that little extra feedom of a w/c set up but with out needing a massive case and good knowlage of w/c to achive what i would consider good temps against a good air cooler, not only that some of these mosters like the v10 are huge. They look big but in the metal/fleash they weigh a ton and are very large and make you say woah!!



Also i think them typhoon fans are very good, and have one of if not the best cfm ratings there the exact same fans i came to conclusion of picking. So im glad im on the right track. As ive tried not to ask to many qestion but rather search reviews make little notes to compare! Ive got a build in my head but just gettig time to sort it.
 
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Thanks a bunch for your replies everyone, helped a lot. If I were to go with the H50, then stick two Scythe S-FLEX 1600RPM Ultra Quiet 120mm Fans in push-pull, mounted with some IC Diamond, I would think that would give decent cooling, especially at high volts. What do you think?
 
That should be plenty mate. I run my q9650 with a h50 cooling it at 3.8 and I have no issues. All runs smoothly. I used mx-3 paste to sit it and i use the corsair 120 fan thats provided and an antec tri cool fan on the other side to run in a push pull config. Very happy with the temps. Idles around 37 on the 4 cores with 1.3 volts and under IBT it gets up to 59 but thats is it topped out. Tried it at 4ghz and it cooled well enough but backed off from my 1.32 cpu volts. Hope thats helpfull.
 
blinghound said:
Thanks a bunch for your replies everyone, helped a lot. If I were to go with the H50, then stick two Scythe S-FLEX 1600RPM Ultra Quiet 120mm Fans in push-pull, mounted with some IC Diamond, I would think that would give decent cooling, especially at high volts. What do you think?
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Scythe S-FLEX have proven to have bad static pressure and (fairly)low CFM from what I have read. As they will be going through a radiator they will need CFM and good static pressure.

There was a review I have read where they tested the Scythe S-FLEX and it was okay as a case fan: When they put it on a radiator it's CFM dropped massively to almost nothing. I would suggest looking at this for a good fan:

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cooling/2009/09/28/what-s-the-best-case-fan/1

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cooling/2009/09/28/what-s-the-best-case-fan/5

One of the most basic testing I have seen, though one of the most accurate, a lot of reviews use a CFM meter which tends to be inaccurate especially at low CFM.

Most of the fans drop massive CFM when attached to a radiator and in my opinion a slower but stronger pulling fan is needed.
 
They have good airflow and are slightly noisier. I would say these are good fans to use on a radiator and fairly commonly used for such; especially as it has nine fins the arflow is increased.

I found on searching for fans it was a choice:
Cheap fans - Little airflow and quiet
- Good airflow and noisy

Expensive fans - Okay airflow and quiet
- High aireflow and noisy
 
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